 | Dale McConkey, Peter Augustine Lawler - Political Science - 2003 - 260 pages
...people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue — Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark of those who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for... | |
 | Daniel A. Bell, Chae-bong Ham - History - 2003 - 404 pages
...the work-bench," is well known. In "Notes on the State of Virginia," he observes that the "corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. 27 Diggins (1994):42-43. 28 This crucial subject receives but one brief mention of a single page of... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...which no age nor nation has furnished an example. This was not merely a matter of rural sentimentality. In the 1790s, the United States was still overwhelmingly... | |
 | Christiane Grewe-Volpp - American fiction - 2004 - 450 pages
...escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example....looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, äs does the husbandman, for their subsistance, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers.... | |
 | David E. Nye - History - 2004 - 388 pages
...whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." 46 An agrarian nation would remain virtuous and would preserve its democratic traditions. In addition... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and... | |
 | Matthew McCormack - History - 2005 - 244 pages
...whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience... | |
 | Peter Coviello - 243 pages
...husbandman" (Notes, 164). The availability of land in the nation is praiseworthy because Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience... | |
 | David N. Livingstone, Charles W. J. Withers - Science - 2010 - 442 pages
...escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example....soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. . . . The mobs of great cities... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - Cooking - 2005 - 414 pages
...— for the time being at least — safe from such a fate because, as Jefferson noted, "corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." America was truly exceptional in that it could realistically wish "never ... to see our citizens occupied... | |
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... Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. 
